I will also be appearing at the Oslo Comics Expo (fuck-all details on website at present) on Saturday 24th May at 17:00, doing an onstage Q&A. No plans for a signing.

In real terms, this means that I arrive in Oslo airport tired and confused at 11 o’clock at night, attempt to get to central Oslo on my own without getting mugged or raped, locate my hotel, confirm that it’s not a crackhouse or a knocking-shop for backpackers, fail to sleep because I’ve timeshifted an hour, pass out around dawn, wake up five minutes later, jabber incoherently for two hours to a room full of filmmakers who don’t actually speak my language anyway, spend the next 24 hours staggering around town using the only two words of Norwegian I can remember ("thankyou" and "beer"), throw up over a small group of people at Comics Expo who were only standing there because they were looking for Killoffer, and then get myself conveyed back to the airport by ambulance on Sunday.

Lots of info and program can be found at the Oslo Comics Expo facebook group (in norwegian, tho), no idea why they haven't cared to put any of it up on their webpage.

I'll try to be there, depends on if the let me leave a bit early from work that day (which they should, since my work consists mainly in keeping myself updated on and selling comics and graphic novels).

Also: No signing? Too bad, that would be immensely popular, if the news got out. There are a lot of Warren Ellis fans in Oslo, that I know of.

Not sure about what's published in english. Jason is the only international, translated name I can think of. Christopher Nielsen has done the comic-animated movie/TV leap (the movie "Free Jimmy"). At the Expo yesterday, I all I managed to catch was a panel of norwegian and american fanzineers drinking beer out of .5 cans and gabbling away in mostly horrible english. I ID'd the the Dongery gang and Rui Tenreiro up there. Tenreiro has a really beautiful book coming out now. Veterans Kverneland and Fiske are turning into a duo, mixing two completely different but exquisite drawing styles, making artist biographies and travel diaries.

On the strip side, you've got commercially succesful series with titles like M, Nemi and Pondus as the most prominent. Some of them have been exported. (M does quite a few silent strips. Some are completely incomprehensible, but I keep finding funny stuff: http://www.start.no/m/). It was the surge of popularity following the introduction of local-made newspaper strips rather than american syndicated ones which broke the way for mainstreaming norwegian underground comics, opening up state culture funds and resources.

All of the norwegians I can remember are writer/artists, rather than one or the other. None of the guys who did licensed work for the 70's/80's comic generation has sought much publicity.